Holiday helpers filled Orange County buses on Friday with thousands of donated toys and other gifts for needy children during an annual toy drive whose name and aim was simply: Stuff a Bus.

The daylong event at the Honda Center had filled eight buses with gifts as of press time on Friday afternoon, a record-breaking pace. Last year's drive set the record by collecting 16,000 toys and sporting goods, enough to fill nine buses.

The first bus-stuffers arrived before dawn, and the drive was to continue until 6:30 p.m., after dark. The gifts will be distributed to needy children through the Spark of Love toy drive.

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